South Africa's Oldest Existing Colonial Building

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South Africa's Oldest Existing Colonial Building


In 1652, the first settlement in the Western Cape was founded by the Dutch East India Company. Today, the ‘Castle of Good Hope’ is known as the oldest existing colonial building from that era.

From the Series: Aerial Africa: Western Cape http://bit.ly/2JEcauG

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  1. Your facts are wrong. Local Khoi or San (Hottentots) were not enslaved by the Cape Dutch. The Hottentots were largely nomads. Stop spreading misinformation for the sake of your woke narrative.

  2. To those arguing with people from my country about our history, how many Khoikhoi and San people do you know, and could you point out the "Cape of Good Hope" on a map?

  3. Not all the Khoisan were enslaved and over powered. A handful worked as indentured labourers, but the enslaved were brought from Malayasia, India, Mauritius, Madagascar. Please don't misrepresent my country's history. You did well pronoucing "Jan van Riebeck".

  4. Doesn't surprise me at all that the Smithsonian lie. What a load of rubbish. The star forts are all over the old world and were not built by slaves that's for sure.

  5. Please get your facts right. No indigenous people were ever enslaved in South Africa. The slaves that were here were brought in from India and Malaysia. The Dutch traded with the indigenous San people to buy land and sheep but because they had no conveyor of property rights they sometimes went and stole back the items traded.

  6. Your facts is so freakin wrong as to call a cat a lion…….Khoi San was not the only enslaved – also slaves from South East Asia and Asia as well as low waged European workers was the builders. All these, are the ancestors of the white South Africans also which leftists so often wrongly blame for slavery and apartheid. The perpetrators were the Dutch High officials who returned to the Netherlands after they completed their lootings. People who benefitted from slavery are thus the current Dutch living in the Netherlands. I find it desturbing that organisations like Smithsonian spread false information based on shallow research. The world expect more from such organisations.

  7. Factually incorrect, the VOC made a proclamation that no indigenous people were to be enslaved, slaves were actually imported from Java and Indonesia the old Dutch Batavia, FYI